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Originally Posted by deejne
Wonder how much that cost U.S. taxpayers to keep him jail for 27 years  I heard it was an average of $35K/year recently and sometimes as high as $65K?year |
I read recently that the national average is around 30K a year , but it can be higher depending on the state they are in and if the prisoner has any special needs. Also higher security prisons where they keep the real bad criminals are a lot more expensive.
Oddly enough even at 30K a year it is cheaper to keep people in jail for life then to put them to death because of the extreme costs in legal fees associated with putting someone to death.